Delete Cookies

A web cookie or browser cookie is a small portion of text saved on a client’s computer by a web browser. A cookie contains one or more name-value pairs holding crumbs of data like user preferences, logged-in username, session identifier, or additional data needed by websites. These cookies are stored on the client’s machine like any other file. Hence, they should be cleaned up at regular intervals to free disk space and fill up security loopholes. The process of removing cookies depends on the web browser used by the client.

Mozilla Firefox

Open Mozilla Firefox browser

Click Tools from the browser’s menu bar

Select Options (Edit or Preferences in case of Linux)

Select Privacy from the listed tabs

In the History panel, click Show Cookies (if Firefox will = Use custom settings for history) or Remove Individual Cookies (if Firefox will = Remember history)